A human test that is based on a human conceptual capability. A human test according to the present techniques includes posing a question that is selected to exercise a human conceptual capability, obtaining an answer to the question, and comparing the answer to a correct answer that would be rendered by a human being.
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1. A method for determining whether an originator of an access to a computer-based system is a human being or a computer-based program imitating a human being, comprising: generating a computer-based message defining a human test which when rendered by another computer-based system using an output device presents a stimulus perceptible by one or more human senses such that the stimulus depicts an object that exists in the real-world and a question pertaining to the object wherein the question is selected to test human knowledge regarding a real-world capability of the object; transmitting the computer-based message to the originator and receiving a computer-based message containing an answer to the question from the originator and determining whether the answer is correct.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether a time spent by the originator answering the question is too fast for a human.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the object is a living thing.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the stimulus depicts the living thing visually.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the stimulus depicts the living thing using sound.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the object is an inanimate object.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the stimulus depicts the inanimate object visually.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the stimulus depicts the inanimate object using sound.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising varying one or more visual characteristics of the object.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising adapting the stimulus to a human disability.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the question is selected to exercise a human capability to parse spoken speech.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising obtaining a set of material for rendering the stimulus and the question from a data store that holds a set of pre-selected material for a variety of stimuli and questions.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein obtaining a set of material comprises varying one or more characteristics of the stimulus.
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